Comments on: UIEtips: Explaining the iOS and Android Mobile Browser Usage Disparity

By: @jakubik

@jakubik — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 20:22:02 +0000

Hi, perhaps a silly one, but the numbers only talk about iOS/Android browsers, so that makes me think how different device types fare in Akamai’s data? Could the iOS Wifi dominance be given by WiFi-only iPads? (i.e. majority of iPads sold)

By: SusanM

SusanM — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 18:54:31 +0000

Here’s another contributing factor to low WiFi browsing rates on Andriod phones. The already abysmal battery life for my Andriod phone is halved when I have WiFi turned on. As a result, I turn it of to conserve battery life and forget to turn it on. I’m sure I’m not alone.

By: Calum

Calum — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:39:48 +0000

Isn’t one of the reasons simply that there are also an enormous number of iPads out there compared to the number of Android tablets, which also identify themselves as running ‘Mobile Safari’ and ‘Android WebKit’ respectively? So the iPhone v Android ‘smartphone subscriber’ figures that Gruber uses to indicate the supposed disparity presumably aren’t really a true picture of the ownership/usage numbers for iOS v Android devices overall.